They are very much real to me

The things I love most about books is the escpape they provide you with, the lives they unravel and the impact they make on my heart.

[deathgasmic]

i deserve to be bent over the nearest surface because you couldn't keep your hands off of me, not whatever this is

[drops-of-universe]

Doctor prescribed me 100mg of true love’s kiss

[ilostyou]

lover (2019) // need (unreleased) // willow (2020)

[gringolet]

rating whether polyamory would solve famous love triangle plots

Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot (Arthuriana): no because Mordred and Agravaine would not be let in on the mutual consent and would still try to catch Guinevere cheating

Tristan/Iseult/Mark (Tristania): absolutely not because Mark is Tristan’s uncle

Tristan/Iseult/Palomides (Tristania): absolutely yes because between Palomides and Iseult all of Tristan’s most unhelpful impulses would be balanced out

Peeta/Katniss/Gale (Hunger Games): polyamory alone cannot defeat an authoritarian dystopia

Cyrano/Roxanne/Christian (Cyrano de Bergerac): solves every problem in the first 3 acts, solves no problems in the 4th

Wesley/Buttercup/Humperdink (The Princess Bride): while Wesley would be happy living as buttercups side piece, the problem is no amount of mutual consent will fulfill prince humperdinks emotional need to be at war. so no

Orsino/Viola/Olivia (Twelfth Night): most of it yes as long as Sebastian fucks that pirate

Heathcliff/Catherine/Edgar (Wuthering Heights): Technically yes but they all have so many emotional issues that new problems would immediately arise and Catherine would still die of being stressed out by the whole thing

Mark Antony/Cleopatra/Caesar (Antony and Cleopatra): well vibes-wise they were probably all fucking in real life and clearly polyamory alone did not save the Roman Republic

Menelaos/Helen/Paris (The Iliad etc): polyamory alone CAN stop the Trojan war as long as the Greeks know Menelaos tops

Florence/The Russian/Svetlana (Chess): polyamory alone cannot stop the Cold War

The Dutchman/Sente/Erik (The Flying Dutchman): solves every interpersonal problem but would actively damn the Dutchman to wander the seas forever

Mathilde/Julien/Mme de Renal (The Red and the Black): a rare case where polyamory would make everything WORSE! Fucking two people at the same time would make poor asexual Julien even more miserable and more people would die. Mme de Renal’s guilt would be even more destructive. Mathilde would suicide bait everyone else involved.

Raoul/Christine/Erik (Phantom of the Opera): probably not but i want to say yes because its such a funny concept

Jacques/Severine/Roubaud (La Bête Humaine): no! Jacques would just sexually commit TWO murders

[forthegothicheroine]

Adding on:

Rick/Ilsa/Victor: Absolutely, that would have worked, both men offered to step down for her and they’re all about to go off fighting nazis anyway, Ilsa just didn’t know to suggest it until the plane was taking off

Group Polyamory in Dracula: Clearly solved nothing in the first act, clearly solved everything in the second

[marzipanandminutiae]

Edith/Thomas/Lucille: well, it would solve their problems (money, deeply sublimated homosexual attraction, Help I Love My Sister-Wife AND My Non-Sister-Wife, etc.). I feel like it might make things worse for the world at large, though

[vinegarextract]

this is my takeaway from Everything Everywhere All At Once

[kendallroynsfw]

everything everywhere all at once is about intergenerational trauma. about depression and passive suicidality and the gravitational appeal of nothingness. about aging, getting older in your twenties and getting older in your fifties. about the specific hurt mothers can cause their daughters and daughters their mothers. about the harsh reality of the immigrant experience and the american dream. but it’s mostly about kindness and family and it’s about choosing to sit at home talking about taxes with someone who loves you, and it’s about telling your daughter that you’d choose her over the entire universe, and it’s about how even in the universes where life didn’t form, love can still exist. and it’s really all of that at once.

[goodsirs]

Stephanie Hsu as Joy/Jobu Tupaki in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

[dailyflicks]

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE 2022, dir. Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

[anxietyproblem]

[scarletfern]

[hotdemonladyluna]

[actordougjones]

Throwback Thursday: It was 5 years ago when we were celebrating award season for The Shape Of Water, and I got to live my dream of being in an old musical dance number (dressed as an Amphibian Man, of course) with the amazing Sally Hawkins.

[nightfuryqueen]

[crystal-bytes]

GIFTOBER 2022

DAY TWENTY-SIX: BAD WEATHER

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 15x08 "The Gang Carries a Corpse Up a Mountain" (2021)

[thechy-fychannel]

Nothing could have prepared me to learn this is from It's Always Sunny and not some drama film

[srsfunny]

An Idea To Prevent A Nuclear War

[pocketrunner]

“My suggestion was quite simple: Put that needed code number in a little capsule, and then implant that capsule right next to the heart of a volunteer. The volunteer would carry with him a big, heavy butcher knife as he accompanied the President. If ever the President wanted to fire nuclear weapons, the only way he could do so would be for him first, with his own hands, to kill one human being. The President says, “George, I’m sorry but tens of millions must die.” He has to look at someone and realize what death is—what an innocent death is. Blood on the White House carpet. It’s reality brought home.” - Fisher, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1981)

[sexhaver]

this leaves out the best part of the above quote:

“When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they said, ‘My God, that’s terrible. Having to kill someone would distort the President’s judgment. He might never push the button.”

[michaelgovehateblog]

I would like to wish everyone an uneventful new year

[primarybufferpanel]

May we live in very uninteresting times

[broken-academia]

may you experience very precedented events

[androidboy]

can’t blame vampires for gettin erotic. you’re already suckin on someone’s neck but also your natural state is Cold and the bloods all fresh and warm and addicting like hot cocoa but sexy

[androidboy]

like ur drinkin it and u can feel the warmth go down your throat and then it’s slowly spreading to the rest of your body like a slow petit mort and u haven’t felt that warm and alive since your last feeding and it just feels real good. like when you drink hot cocoa

[n1ghtmarea5ylum-deactivated2022]

“i searched a thousand lifetimes for the one that would make you happiest. and you’ll find it one day… without me.”

[midnights-dragon]

inside job part 2 got me like

[walled-flwr]

Reagan Ridley being the smartest person in the whole world still not figuring how to have a successful career AND a healthy relationship with the man of her dreams feels so wrong ...